ThomasPowers Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 I remember seeing a picture of my Economic Geology professor standing next to a deposit in Canada that he said was "Warm to the touch" from atomic decay! Got any Trinitite? (Glassed sand from the Trinity Site about 1 hour from my house.) Most of the stuff being sold as Trinitite nowadays is actually slagged sand from rocket engine tests at White Sands, the way to tell the "real stuff" is to check it for alpha radiation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 Uranium is where you find it. Like in our newly drilled community well. Thomas, I do not own any trinitite - yet... Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Yes our "city water" has exceeded the levels for Radionuclides before; but living close to 5000' with igneous rocks in abundance; it's just another source...I keep hoping for a *useful* mutation though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 22 hours ago, Anachronist58 said: Iron Dragon, my Father still says, "First liar does not have a chance". pictures, Pictures, PICTURES! I'm not in the habit of lying and not of the mind of walking our 60 acres with a mile long steep driveway that most of the geode's have fallen down the hillside to take pictures. What I will do is try and find the one's that are close to the house & shop to take a few pictures when the weather moderates a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted April 12, 2022 Author Share Posted April 12, 2022 Nor am I in the habit of lying, and I apologize for any impuning of your integrty. It is something my father still says to me when I tell him something "incredible", not as in "not credible". Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 No problem Robert, we're good. I asked my wife about where some of the geode's were, so I could take some pictures of them. She kinda chuckled and said we don't have geode's, but what I thought were geode's are actually flint & chert nodule's and every one she looked at did not have any crystal's inside and the flint was poor quality. She has taken some classes on Flint Knapping and nodule identification and is an amateur Rockhound. So here I sit with egg on my face and apologize to anyone who may be waiting for pictures. Anyway here are a couple of pictures of rocks that I thought some were geode's that are stacked around a little goldfish pond I made decades ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 Iron Dragon, I think that they are lovely rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Brown County Indiana, near Lake Lemon, we used to see stone houses made from quartz geodes; some creeks every rock in them was a geode. Unfortunately my Father couldn't remember the exact location he used to take us to and now has passed on. When we moved from IN I had 400# of geodes and would give them away; now I'm down to a few examples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I had five 5 gallon buckets of my dads "stock" that I had to get rid of for the move and I found a guy whose son was into rockhounding and he was glad to take them. Rock hounding is kind of hard to do locally in eastern Nebraska.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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